You won't get very far in this episode without realizing the click-baitiness of the title. The truth is, there was a time I wanted to keep all of my body shame and use it for fuel to "fix" my body and chaotic relationship to food. It never worked, and in this episode I'll talk about what did. Links: Work with Me Reimagining The Body course (use the…

If you've spent any time in the somatic healing world, you're likely familiar with the concept of the body saying "no". I'll also often say that the body has a language that it speaks - sensation. emotion. pleasure and pain. Reactions and responses that say "no" and reactions and responses that say "yes". And it takes a lot of time and practice to …

What I wish I would have known when I was struggling and reading books about "mindful eating": - Slowing down isn't a tool to make you eat less. It's a tool to notice what's happening. - No amount of mindful eating is going to make eating less than you actually need serve you. - Mindful eating doesn't have to be precious. You can eat in front of yo…

Healing doesn't happen in a hurry. The hurry to be healed, integrated, enlightened, free, arrived...it's not as neat and tidy as a lot of self-help books or before-and-after photos might suggest. It's more like, the harder we try to fix things, the harder our nervous systems work to keep us where things are familiar. Whereas, if we can slow down wi…

THE TOP 10 MISTAKES I’VE MADE ON MY HEALING JOURNEY: Honestly, I cringe a bit using the words "healing" OR "journey" because the internet is so oversaturated with wellness or spiritual teachers. I'm not interested in making "healing" my whole personality, but simultaneously I have always had this deep interest in why things hurt. What any kind of p…

This podcast is for you if you're feeling unsettled and unsafe right now. It's for you if being alone, or home all the time, or having your world turned inside-out makes you want to crawl out of your skin. It's for you if you're like a client of mine who told me this morning that she doesn't want to be stuck in her house with all that food. This ep…

The 15 minute audio you're about to hear is the introduction to my 30-day course Coming Home to Your Body. This is a course that all of my clients get when we start working together but it's also available on it's own or part of the Free Spirit Academy membership. This is easily my favorite course, addressing how the effects of trauma and stress ca…

Coming from a challenging childhood, dissociation became my "normal". As I left religion and pursued healing, the dissociation that was once completely disconnected from my body...went internal. Today we're looking at how attempts at embodiment and the pursuit of health can get sticky. Links: Free Spirit Academy on Instagram Work with Rande…

I love a project. I love working towards something. I think that's pretty human. But for a long time my body was my project. I grew up in a holistic, seventh day adventist, vegetarian home. we used homeopathy and natural remedies and drank carrot juice and ate homemade bread. To this day I LOVE the taste of barley green powder because I have early …

So many folks I see, and this was me too, attach goodness and morality to their health. If something is wrong, they feel wrong. They will spin into stories about how they're creating their own disease or this is going to turn into something far worse. Can you make some space for the fact that not all of the contributing factors were in your hands? …

Today I'm talking about the ways that shame lived in my body and fed into the cycle of binge eating and disembodied practices with food. I'll also talk about making my body safe enough to finally feel the shamed parts of me so that they could be understood and come to a more whole and free place. Links: Free Spirit Academy on Instagram Work with Ra…

For a huge chunk of my life, trauma had left me flat, numb, and unable to feel what was going on in my body. In today's episode I talk about the seemingly "normal" experiences that can lead to an overwhelmed nervous system, the symptoms or carrying stored survival energy, impulses, and emotions with us over a long period of time, and the symptoms t…

After a bit of a hiatus, today I'm bringing back the podcast talking about what happened when trusty health practices were "taken" from me. In this solo episode you'll hear about: - The health challenges that turned my wold upside down. - The practices that had to change and what happened to me physically, mentally, and emotionally. - The surprises…

Today I'm speaking with Holistic Health and Root Cause Practitioner Sarah Hook. Sarah and I have been connected online since our early wellness blogging days when we were certain we had it all figured out. Some years ago Sarah was bit by a tick and developed severe Lyme disease, causing her to question what she knew about wellness. We talk about wh…

For the last year, I haven't been consistently present with my online work...and today you'll hear why. A cascade of events left me in a pretty low-functioning state until recently. Currently I'm a couple months out from a couple of minor surgeries and am feeling clearer and sturdier than I have in some time! I don't believe we need trauma to grow.…

Free Spirit Academy's new and expanded intuitive eating program is being uploaded this month (February 2022)! FSA members get ALL courses for $25 a month (no minimum commitment) OR you can purchase the downloadable version of Liberated here. More options for working together: Eating Psychology Coaching Somatic Experiencing Sessions Private Breathwo…

In this solo episode, I'm talking about the idea of 'letting yourself go' and how that differs from the 'letting go of control' that needs to happen in order to make peace with food or integrate trauma. There's also a very special deal on the Free Spirit Academy program Binge Freedom, links below! Links: Binge Freedom (use coupon code DECEMBER50 fo…

Is it possible to take on a healing diet or a supportive protocol with a history of disordered eating? Is there a way to have a healthy, alive relationship with food that's also intentional? Is restriction 100% bad news in all cases? Today I'm sharing my personal experiences with chronic illness, having a background of disordered eating from a youn…

I want to start by saying that this episode is going to be worth a listen whether you're a person with ADHD or not! Sophie Tully is a Biomedical and Clinical Nutrition Scientist and Health Coach and she specialises in creating highly personalised health plans, tailored to unique goals, lifestyle and biology. She uses a range of evidence-based, safe…

Today's episode is a sample of the Free Spirit Academy program, Body Love. I talk about why addressing a painful body image is integral to healing a disordered relationship with food, or taking on a healing protocol. Our bodies are home as well as incredible messengers - and by making peace with the body we have, we're much more easily able to hear…

On today's episode I'm talking a bit about the autoimmune diagnoses I got earlier this year. This is a shorty ep but includes: ...why it took me so long to see medical professionals and get tested. ...the wide range of feelings post-diagnosis. ...the pre-self-love I had to do before I had any answers. ...the promises I made myself once I had someth…

Hello friends, today I'm talking to my friend Lena, an eating disorder recovery coach who also understands firsthand months of juice fasting, pure raw food diets, and even using diet to heal illness - complicated by her many years of disordered eating that didn't stop once she got into raw foods. Over the course of this conversation we make some si…

After well over a year, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is BACK! I begin this episode with a health update of my own - and talk about the balance between maintaining a peaceful relationship with food and my body, while also supporting my body's very specific needs. That will lead us into a conversation with colon hydrotherapist and trauma-informed …

Here's what you can expect from today's episode: ...how the anxiety of our current circumstances can trigger any anxiety already living within us. ...the question of whether or not we'll ever be going back to 'normal'. ...we'll talk about the pressure to always be growing, creating, being productive, and going to our max. ...the idea that the unive…

HEALING ANCESTRAL TRAUMA WITH INHERITED TRAUMA RESOLUTION COACH, LISA NAGEL In today's episode, you'll hear us talk about... ...The symptoms of inherited trauma: anxiety, secondary ptsd, depression, feeling like we can't get where we want to go, feeling trapped in repeating cycles, etc. ...Lisa's story of looking around at her family and seeing the…

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For all of the seeking we do... ...medical mediums. ...spiritual gurus. ...plant medicines. We often miss the most powerful medicine: the information our own bodies hold. 2019 was like a massive plant medicine journey for me...sans plant medicine (so y'know, I'm going based on what I've heard). My body took me on the ride of my life - and while it …

Friends!! After a bit of a hiatus, the Free Spirit Academy Podcast is back and it feels SO good. I'll update you a bit in the intro to this episode, but here's a bit of what to expect today: I met Jen at my Level 1 Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training and my first thought was 'thank GOD, a real human'. While I met so many lovely humans, Jen didn't feel …

I met today's guest in my very first kundalini yoga teacher training and we've continued taking trainings from Guru Singh in Seattle for the last couple of years - and I wanted to have her on as a teacher but also as an example of someone who moved through serious addiction to drugs and alcohol and on the other side - is more real and more uniquely…

THE DREAM UNDER THE DREAM BODY. This solo episode is going to be a taster of my most recent program in the Free Spirit Academy membership site. My new 40-day program Liberated is my take on what many call intuitive eating. If you've listened to this podcast for any length of time you'll know that I talk a LOT about eating intuitively, finding freed…

WHAT IT MEANS TO "BE LOVE" WITH REIKI PRACTITIONER, COLON HYDROTHERAPIST, AND OWNER OF LOVE BEING, ALEC STEURY. A few of the things you'll hear us talk about are... What it's like to start to shift from a solely logical, linear way of thinking and being to developing intuition and self trust. Putting our attention and letting our journey be lead by…

DETACHING SELF-WORTH FROM YOUR FOOD CHOICES WITH EMOTIONAL EATING COACH, GEORGINA GORRINGE. In this week's conversation, you'll hear us talk about: ...how the opposite of emotional eating isn't "normal" eating and how that may not necessarily be what we're looking for. ...the journey from mindless eating to more conscious eating with nutrition know…

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A FREE SPIRIT? Today it's a solo episode where I talk about what it does and doesn't mean to be a "free spirit" and to cultivate more freedom in your life and body. Links mentioned: Kundalini warmup Feeling Breath Practice Work with me Free Spirit Academy website Free Spirit Academy courses Free Spirit Academy Facebook group…

FEELING AT HOME IN YOUR BODY WHEREVER YOU ARE WITH CLINICAL NUTRITIONIST AND PRIVATE FLIGHT ATTENDANT, CHRISTINA PISTONE. Here are some of the gems you can look forward to in this conversation. ...we talk about the dangerous assumption that thinness equals health. ...how sometimes working LESS hard is what's needed to support your health and well b…

Before Free Spirit Academy was Free Spirit Academy I was trying to figure out how to transition from food blogging as a hobby to Eating Psychology Coaching as a career. And I'm pretty certain that if I hadn't worked with a coach I would have struggled a LOT longer than I did to create what I wanted to create. Coaching and mentorship is SO important…

MOTHERHOOD AS A SPIRITUAL PATH. In today's conversation, we'll talk about motherhood as a spiritual path but even if you're not a parent or even planning on being a parent (and if that's you, I'm right there with you) there's so much great stuff in here for you. Here are a few of the things you're in for: ...Leslie talks about how carrying extra we…

BODY LOVE: FROM RULES TO RELATIONSHIP WITH EXPERIENTIAL EATING EXPERT, BETH SUMMERS. In today's conversation we talked about when health becomes a value - and how that can be a beautiful thing in relationship and a destructive thing if it's disembodied. Beth will tell us the story of how experiential eating became such a prominent part of her work.…

Welcome to episode 41 of the Free Spirit Academy Podcast with Artist and Intuitive, Lindsay King. Sometimes people's worlds are so unfathomable to me that it feels like magic. Lindsay is a beautiful intuitive human being and artist. In her words, she "paints the relationship between the subconscious and what is seen. In this conversation, we talk a…

Welcome to episode 40 of the Free Spirit Academy podcast with Holistic Health Coach and Wellness Lifestyle Consultant Meredith Wadsworth. I discovered Meredith's work while I was going down a rabbit hole with exercise. You'll hear more about this as we dive in but one slice of what Meredith does is fitness training for the method we'll talk about. …

For more background on Mel, check out episode 27, Your Inner Binge Eater is on Your Side where we dove deep on Mel's history and how to address a struggle with binge eating. Today we dive into something I once shrugged off and that's inner child work. This idea that so much of what I struggled with was rooted in childhood. And the reason I shrugged…

HOLISTIC WELLNESS AFTER HEALING AN EATING DISORDER WITH MEGAN GILMORE, THE DETOXINISTA. At the top of this episode, Megan and I talk about the varying reactions people have when they hear "detoxinista". They either get really excited that this might be a specific guide to a rigid detox protocol. OR they turn they other way because they hear "detox"…

GETTING UNSTUCK AND FINDING NEW PERSPECTIVES WITH KUNDALINI YOGA TEACHER, KATIE SEDGWICK. So today we're talking to my friend Katie who we originally spoke with in episode 24 entitled The Eat to Feel Good Diet. She told us her story about cultivating self-love and the accidental weight loss that followed. We got a lot of great feedback and actually…

YOUR BODY ON YOUR SIDE (PART 2) WITH ALIYAH WASHINGTON. Hello friends, just a heads up if you didn't catch last week's episode, this is part two and I definitely suggest listening to part one first. We'll be diving in right where we left off and these are some of the topics we go into: ...The power of admitting when what we are believing might not …

YOUR BODY IS ON YOUR SIDE WITH ALIYAH WASHINGTON. If you've been listening since early on this year, you'll have heard Aliyah on episode 2, sharing her journey through anorexia and today we go much, much deeper. I actually split this episode into two parts as it got long but I didn't want to cut any of it. As I've merged topics like eating disorder…

THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING YOURSELF TO WELLNESS WITH IRIDOLOGIST AND THE HOST OF THE RAW FOOD FOOT SOLDIER PODCAST, CHRIS HALL. A few months back, Chris and I had a talk on his podcast and it had been lingering on the edge of my mind that I wanted to bring him over so when I saw on his Instagram stories that he was about to do a social media detox, I…

FOOD, FREEDOM, AND FEEDING FAMILY WITH WRITER AND PLANT-BASED RECIPE CREATOR, ASH FOSTER. In this episode we talked about... :::How we can try and get a sense of adventure and freedom and excitement through following a particular diet. :::How perfectionism can be addicting. :::Ash addressed how she dealt with extreme depression after the birth of h…

VEGANISM, RE-WILDING, & BIOHACKING, OH MY! VITALITY THROUGH EASE AND CONSISTENCY WITH MICHAEL PERRINE. Mike Perrine is more than just one of the many colon hydrotherapists I've spoken with on this podcast, he's also a detox and health counselor (in the most real, least fluffy sense of that title), founder of Vitality New York City which offers grav…

BE MORE YOU, GIVE LESS F*CKS WITH SPIRITUAL LIFE AND BRAND COACH, JESS BLANCHE. Something that I often see is that all good coaching is kinda the same. Whether we start out talking about binge eating or business, it's all going to come down to self-understanding, self-acceptance, self-love, and self-expression. And obviously we all have different h…

CREATING A SENSE OF SAFETY IN OUR BODIES WITH TRACY BROWN, RD Hello friends, welcome back! This is part two of season 1, episode 25 featuring Tracy that had so many cliffhangers I had to bring her back. I definitely suggest you go back and listen to that episode first to get filled in on Tracy's eating disorder and education background as well as t…

RE-DEFINING "NORMAL" IN THE WELLNESS WORLD WITH COLON HYDROTHERAPIST, SUKI ZOE. Yes it's true, we have the first of several colon hydrotherapists on the podcast today and this one is coming to us all the way from London! Now I think it's pretty safe to say that nobody grows up thinking that this is the job they'll have for a living. Of all the colo…